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Thursday, 15 November 2007 |
The Web, IR / NLP Group (WING) at the National University of Singapore (NUS) has multiple vacancy positions for outstanding research assistants to work on a digital library project for 3 years, as part of a new, multiyear, multigroup project on media search. The qualified applicant will be working on engineering a large-scale scholarly digital library for an archive of freely-available scientific publications in the field of computer science and for archiving Singapore's institutes of higher learning research outputs.
The candidate will get hands-on training with cutting-edge research in Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing. The successful applicant will work with the group leader, postdocs as well as undergraduate and graduate students.
For more information about the group, see:
http://wing.comp.nus.edu.sg/
Requirements:
The applicant should have a diploma or degree in a field related to Computer Science and should possess strong coding skills for web related development under a Linux, Apache, MySQL architecture. The position requires familiarity and skills in constructing web services, fluency in HTML/DOM parsing.
The ideal candidate will also possess the following desirable traits:
* Enthusiasm and initiative
* Experience with Linux hacking
* Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Perl and/or Python experience
* Singapore or SPR resident
* Be able to start work within 1-6 months
The candidate will enjoy a job that has:
* Flexible working hours and location
* Training with cutting edge technology
* On-the-job learning of research in Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing
* Possible conference travel and training benefits
Applications should include a cover letter and a resume, with a list of at least two referees (who will be contacted). This information should be sent to Min-Yen KAN <kanmy@comp.nus.edu.sg> with the subject line "WING Research Assistant Application". Screening of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled. An initial trial appointment for a year is anticipated with the possibility of reappointment.
Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. Starting salary for the positions will be around 2.5K-3.0K SGD per month.
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